A witch is killed and wrapped in a shroud. Now a sect wants to take possession of the cursed shroud. A nun, raped for not having delivered the shroud, will enact her revenge.
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A witch is killed and wrapped in a shroud. Now a sect wants to take possession of the cursed shroud. A nun, raped for not having delivered the shroud, will enact her revenge.
A revealing documentary following the legendary midfielder, Andrés Iniesta, as he faces a crucial decision after a career-threatening injury. “Very few people know what happened when I got injured. Few know that I had to make a momentous decision. Was it worth it to keep playing or was it time to call it quits?” The revealing documentary follows the legendary midfielder, Andrés Iniesta, as he faces a crucial decision after a career-threatening injury.
Wunderkind, scandalous author, traitor to the fatherland, fury of the theater, feminist, fashion-lover, communist, pessimist, language terrorist, rebel, enfant terrible, nest fouler, brilliant, vulnerable artist, Nobel laureate. This film about Elfriede Jelinek, who in 2004 became the first Austrian author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, focuses on her artistic approach to language. The montage of archive material with voiceovers and interviews, some of them recently recorded, is told from Jelinek’s point of view.
Les Malheurs de Sergueï Paradjanov shows the ravages of time on the copy of the film Les Mains d'or that Sergei Paradjanov shot in 1960. By isolating and slowing down the most damaged parts of the Armenian master's film, I managed to create an object with abstract forms and, insidiously, to give another life to a major work of art.
Moïra finally meets Sacha, after several interactions on the Internet. But Moïra has only one idea in mind: to find the devil.
At a time when it is forbidden to get togother to bury our dead, a little girl separated by an ocean from her grandfather invents a way to say goodbye to him.
A partly silent, partly sung film, shot nowadays in the erased footsteps of the Calais Jungle after its destruction. A tribute that doesn’t take a funeral angle, a tribute to the heroism of the displaced populations, driven out of sites at war devastated by the violence of fires. - doclisbona
An enormous Steinway & Sons piano dominates a cramped and untidy apartment in Buenos Aires, belonging to the 91-year-old twin sisters Isabel and Amelia Cavallini. Once they formed a celebrated piano duo with a blossoming career in the United States. Just as the instrument is actually a little too big for their modest residence, the sisters’ personalities no longer seem to fit their now fragile bodies. In this final part of her trilogy on old age and art (preceded by Las cinéphilas and Le temps perdu), María Alvarez follows these elderly ladies as they shuffle along the path of their memories, which surround them in every corner of their house.
”Gente" tells two parallel stories. On a Sunday afternoon in Madrid, two young women have big decisions to make. While one tries to work up the courage to propose to her partner, the other keeps a secret that makes her question everything. This is a story of humor and love, with a pinch of chaos, as it portrays the dynamics of a group of friends in their twenties.
A historical and archaeological investigation of the mass grave of Pico Reja, located in the cemetery of Seville, where the remains of about two thousand people, victims of the brutal repression exercised by the rebel side during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), are buried.
At a party, Xavier is waiting for a girl he met the night before.Then he gets to know another girl, Alice. Atoms are flying straight through the infinite void until the slight deviation of one of them creates a series of unpredicted moves.
A true classic of 80's horror movies. Regan and Dj have nothing in common with sweet Julie, but the two decide to take a weekend trip along Route 112 where fate has the same ending in store for them.
A short poetry film about British actor Gary Lucy with a collage of images charting my homoerotic desire for British TV personality Gary Lucy.
A journey through states of mind.
Ina is a therapist, the mother of a rebellious teenage girl, and a partner to a man who has always put his own career first. She puts everyone’s needs ahead of her own until one hot summer day, when her self-centered mother celebrates her 70th birthday, something happens that will change everything.
17-year-old Clarice Tovey grapples with guilt when an inquest is held into the death of her baby nephew who was under her watch when he tragically drowned. As each testimony is read, Clarice must learn to accept the past and let go of the constant 'what if's'. This is a story of faith, redemption, and sisterhood at its heart.
How do you brave acute mountain sickness? We talk to researchers, doctors and mountaineers about a syndrome whose mechanisms are still poorly understood.
Two women named Mary -- both recently sexually assaulted by the same man -- meet at the police station and enter into the world that victims of assault have to endure, guided by a police constable and his colleague. As the action unfolds, it is commented on by the Furies -- a chorus of murdered women seen and heard only by the viewer. Flashes of wit and humour temper a dark and difficult subject.
Distant lights reveal the outline of a city. Illuminated ships cross the water with sleeping people on board and the night appears to become liquid. The sower of stars wakes them and travels with them through the city. They talk about this and that – and say goodbye to everything.
Timothée, a 17-year-old Jehovah’s Witness, is shocked to learn of his best friend’s excommunication. Confronted with the choice of his future schooling, he will question the precepts of his community and come up against the fanaticism of his mother.
Two years after the events of the first film, ex-Special Forces Paul Vilar guides a youth group, accompanied by his reluctant daughter, Sara, but they are hunted through the mountains.
In his documentary, filmmaker Daniel Hofmann deals with the history of German thrash metal. He reports on the fans, bands and organizers and offers an insight into the scene.
The White family await their guest. Sergeant-Major Morris has just returned from serving in India.He carries a cursed monkey's paw. It can grant the owner three wishes. Is it magic? A curse? Or pure coincidence?
Dani spends his last day before moving out of town with Roque, his best friend with whom he has been in love with all his life. Set in a sexually oppressive Spanish rural town, Dani and Roque find each other...and say goodbye.
Film offers an insight into the world of three taxidermists and their working methods. It is not about collecting and displaying the most exotic exhibits possible, but rather about documenting endangered animal species as realistically as possible. Maurizio, Robert and Christophe work in this field and all three are currently preparing to take part in the European Taxidermy Championship.
On a movie set, Johann, a young camera operator, shoots a rape scene. Even if he is friend with the actress, he becomes more an actor of this rotten system than a simple witness.
Geoff, a man with an unusual compulsion to eat inedible objects, calls on the unorthodox services of backstreet practitioner Doctor Dora in order to cure his ailment.
The Marrakech du Rire is back in 2022 for its tenth edition, an opportunity to celebrate 10 years of laughter, madness, and outrageous sketches at the Badii Palace. To celebrate this anniversary, Jamel is offering an exceptional gala with even more surprises and extravagance, a transformed stage, and the participation of numerous guests and talents.
After three decades of hiding his feminine impulses, seasoned Spanish dancer Manuel Liñán comes out to challenge convention by pursuing his love of performing flamenco - dressed as a woman - in a conservative society with rigid cultural traditions.
In 1994, film producer Patrick Sobelman recorded the testimony of his grandmother Golda Maria Tondovska, a Polish Jewish survivor of the Shoah.
A film exploring the Queen's love of country life - whether in Scotland, Norfolk, or Windsor - through the eyes of those who came into contact with her and shared her passion.
January 6, 2021 marks a turning point in U.S. history. The storming of the U.S. Capitol brings the United States to the brink of a political abyss. An angry, armed mob invades the Congress building to prevent Joe Biden from being officially confirmed as the winner of the 59th U.S. election and thus becoming the 46th President of the USA. The lie about Donald Trump's stolen election victory explodes into violence, five people die in the heart of U.S. democracy. The attackers' actions are documented almost completely, as is the helplessness of the security forces. Since then, most of the perpetrators have been identified and charged. But the rift in society continues. Many Republican congressmen remain with Trump, a renewed candidacy for the presidential election in 2024 is still possible. The attack on the U.S. Capitol leaves a shock with all convinced democrats. How could it possibly come this far? This documentary tries to reconstruct and analyze from very different perspectives.
A horror anthology film starring the U.K.'s own Tromette, Kitty Kiss, more commonly known as Nurse Meow.
Riccardo, Amir, Pietro and Massimo, four security guards, not particularly brilliant or courageous, are bound by an indissoluble friendship. When Amir, who has a large family to support, loses his job, the other three feel called to help him at any cost. Going from a bad idea to an impromptu criminal plan, the four friends will find themselves in a whirlwind of encounters, adventures and pitfalls, but also some surprises. Because our heroes still have more than one trick up their sleeve…
Angela's husband and son died in hospital after a car accident. Since then the woman has been searching in vain for justice towards the doctor who carried out the fatal operation, Doctor Max. Desperation and obsession lead Angela in a paranoid state that dissociates her from reality. She follows the doctor day after day: behind the anonymous facade, the man hides a parallel life made of depravity and murders committed together with his colleagues Alan and Ivan. Discovering these new horrors, Angela turns to dark otherworldly forces to find the strength to eliminate the killers. This decision leads her into a spiral of violence and hallucinations, where pleasure and fear are confused and at the end of which there is a very high price to pay.
An comprehensive look at the life and music of Mark Linkous, a influential figure in the alternative music scene. Critically-acclaimed Linkous had a dramatic life that saw him battle with drug and alcohol addiction, paralysis, and debilitating depression that resulted in his eventual suicide. Mark's music was heralded by his peers and critics; a mix of delicate pop, discordant punk and melodic odyssey; it has been described as defiantly surrealist with all manner of references to smiling babies, organ music, birds, and celestial bodies. The film mines Marks life and music and navigates the sacrifices and highs and lows of his art.
Alain Souchon has never been able to be as it should be and that has long saddened him. His failures in the baccalaureate and in the competitions to become a steward or postman opened up another path for him. Inspired by the music of Laurent Voulzy, he used the words that floated in his head and became the poet of life. This mixture of sweet melancholy and humor, his imagination and his sense of observation, this strong bond with the public have given him, in fifty years of career, a special place in the French musical landscape. It is his story and his repertoire filled with hits that his relatives, friends and musicians reveal here, including his sons Pierre and Charles, Laurent Voulzy, Michel Jonasz, Louis Chedid, Thierry Lhermitte, but also Jane Birkin, Vincent Delerm and Edward Baer.
Paris, 1954. The story of the meeting, known thanks to the fortuitous discovery of a forgotten notebook, full of notes and photographs, between a white British aristocrat, Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter, writer and jazz patron, and a talented black pianist, Thelonious Monk, one of the best bebop jazz musicians of all time; a prodigious union of wills that overcame the most extreme prejudices of the very conservative US society.
Kim and Maja, two physiotherapists who are friends, are planning to open a practice together. To finance their dream, they are working part-time at a hostess agency that offers jobs in the restaurant industry.
10-year-old Lucy is basically too good for this world. She is well-behaved, kind and perfect in every situation. Her best friend Rima and she herself want to make the world a little better with every little action. But then disaster threatens: Lucy’s parents run an ice cream parlor, and when the expensive ice cream machine breaks down, the parlor is threatened with closure. Lucy wants to prevent this at all costs. However, after much deliberation, she sees only one way to get money quickly: a bank robbery. To prepare for her big coup, she makes a deal with the class gangster Tristan. Under the code name “Operation Lucyfer”, he is supposed to teach her how to be mean and ruthless. So Lucy gets tutored in stealing, lying, cheating and blackmailing – and proves to be an amazingly docile student. Lucy barely recognizes herself. Her transformation from nerd to crook, however, causes many problems.
While managing a train accident, Madrid's Civil Protection team is warned of a possible solar storm. Ernesto, a mid-level manager, is the only one convinced that immediate action is needed. When the storm hits, the consequences are devastating and arrive sooner than expected.
Ezra has recently been living in a village marked by war. He meets Odelia, who works in a dyery. She has to deliver a sheet outside the village. He takes her on a scooter.
Both a political narrative and a psychological reflection, this documentary explores the personal journey of a quarry worker’s son from Calvados who rose to become the last great figure of the French Communist Party. It delves into the logic that shaped his path and his lasting impact on France’s history.
This is the story of Guy Roux and how he managed to bring the modest A.J. Auxerre to the top of professional french football league.
When the wolf returns to the forests of my childhood, I grab my camera. On the summits, I meet Alphonse, a shepherd nearing retirement. And this encounter captivates me. I follow him as he passes the baton to a couple of young shepherds, for the last season of his last mountain.
London is being terrorized by Christian white supremacists. While a broken man is groomed for the next attack, a boy from Brixton sees the world in a different way. But seeing things differently can be dangerous.